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"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
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> "DJ" <nospamplease_at_goaway.com> wrote in message
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> > so what is wrong with select count .... which is always possible and is
> what
> > the OP wanted
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> What is wrong with select count? Nothing particularly. Except that the OP
> was told that SQL Plus can't suppress results, which it can. And perhaps
the
> OP might find the other statistics useful, too, given that the entire
> original post sounds as though there is some checking or verifying (and
> therefore perhaps some tuning) of the SQL statement in question going on.
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> Regards
> HJR
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ok, fair point - ill go with that :-) Received on Sat Mar 13 2004 - 15:38:02 CST